Description of problem:
Is menu editing supposed to work in Phoebe?
I have opened Start here, navigated to Applications/{,Extras}/Sound & Video,
and moved Rhythmbox from extras to base. The panel menu hasn't changed,
and the changes in Start here disappeared on next login.
Sorry, this may be misfiled (perhaps gnome-vfs2?)
Havoc, it is for you anyway ;-)
Thanks

Also, if you add an item directly to the menu (right click->Entire menu->Add new
item...), it will only be displayed for the current session. After logging out,
the item is not reloaded, though the desktop file created in
~/.gnome2/vfolders/applications remains.

I am confused - what exactly are the issues with gnome-vfs and RH?
I know that in stock gnome, full menu editing has worked since 2.0.2 + 1
release of gnome-panel
For info I am running phoebe1 + full g2 current build, with the menus config
files symlinked to the files in /etc/gnome-vfs-2.0 (so I have the same menu
layout), and everything just works.

It hasn't worked in stock gnome, it's buggy as hell. It mostly works using the
menus that come with gnome, and if you don't need KDE to use the same menus.
With our vfolder files, the code gets confused and displays things in the wrong
place. The code modifies the vfolder files so KDE can't read them, even if you
never edit your menus. The code does not properly update when new .desktop files
are installed. The code does not support OnlyShowIn. The code does support
some weird undocumented extensions. The code crashes. etc.
There's a lot of difference between "appears to work for me" and
"will not result in deluge of bugzilla reports" ;-) I think it can appear to
work for a lot of people even when 20% of people are seeing serious bugs.
And 20% of our users is at least tens of thousands of people...

Has this problem been fixed yet?
I see it goes back more than a year. It was very disappointing to find
that menus cannot be changed. I'm surprised this still has "normal"
priority and severity.
Is there a way to workaround this problem without breaking anything else?
The Navy purchased this system (and others) from Dell with RHL 9 and 3
yrs of RHN. We expected more stability. They are not going to want to
hear that they have to reach in their pocket again to upgrade to RHEL
workstation so we can have workable machines.

This example adds JEdit to the accessories menu. It assumes that
you're using the gnome desktop.
Do the following as root:
Open /usr/share/applications/gnome-gedit.desktop in a text editor.
Copy it's contents.
Paste in new file.
change lines:
...
Name=JEdit
...
Comment=Java Based IDE
...
Exec=java -jar /usr/local/share/jedit/4.2/jedit.jar
...
Icon=/usr/local/share/jedit/4.2/doc/jedit.png
I left the lines in between alone. I'm sure they're just translations.
Then remove lines:
X-GNOME-DocPath=gedit/gedit.xml
X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Bugzilla=GNOME
X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Product=gedit
X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Component=general
X-Desktop-File-Install-Version=0.4
*Note: Don't remove the Catagories or StarupNotify lines.
Save the new file in the same directory with the name gnome-jedit.desktop
JEdit should be in your accessories menu.

Red Hat apologizes that these issues have not been resolved yet. We do want to
make sure that no important bugs slip through the cracks.
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Any bug still open against Red Hat Linux 7.3 or 9 at the end of 2006 will be
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security issue, please change the product as necessary. We thank you for your
help, and apologize again that we haven't handled these issues to this point.